Species Bharinka storeyi Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
29 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Bharinka storeyi Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [71].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 28.xii.1976, rainforest, at light, R.I. Storey), Windsor Tableland, via Mt Carbine, Queensland.
Introduction
This endemic species, with unusually shaped genitalia, is only known from the type locality in the wet tropics of North Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Yellow, heavily mottled with brown on anterior margin of head, medial region of face and on pronotum; scutellum with brown basal triangles; veins of forewing brown; abdomen heavily marked dorsally and ventrally with brown. Male genitalia with subgential plates with a subapical tooth from dorsal margin. Apical process of styles tapered to acute apex with a ventral subapical tooth. Aedeagal shaft narrow, directed posteriorly with a pair of short anterior marginal processes mounted on a short neck. Length: ♂ 5.2 mm (Webb 1983).
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [71]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |